In respect for the victims of Harvey.
Good night.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
The system supporting the main vortex, Harvey, is still building.
1515.18z
UNISYS Southeast Infrared Satellite (click here for 12-hour loop - thank you)
Below is the feeder system to Harvey. It is still enormous.
In my early days, back in 1999-2000, from the very first assessments, these vortexes were 'land loving.' They would fill with water vapor, but, would begin and/or anchor themselves over land WHILE THEY BUILT VELOCITY. In those days, the land was small islands. All the systems at that time were small systems. They have magnified 1000X of the size from 17 years ago. As far as I can tell, Harvey is a big brother to the earlier vortexes I first assessed. To me he is nothing new, as he is to others.
August 26, 2017
1530.18z
UNISYS Infrared System of north and west hemisphere (click here)
The National Guard and Coast Guard need to collaborate on rescues in Rockport, Texas. The area has to be evacuated as soon as possible. It is going to take a major effort to save the people in Rockport.
The sustained winds and wind driven water will make their circumstances dire the longer they are facing this disaster. ASAP, please. No loss of life is acceptable.
FEMA needs to begin to STAGE rescue efforts in warehouses. It is going to be a while. I am sure the American Red Cross and other NGOs are looking to help. Stage them in. The dynamics are too dangerous to bring efforts into the area, the people need to be moved to safe cities.
The existing infrastructure all has to be inspected before it can be considered safe. There are going to be buildings condemned upon inspection. It is going to take time before people can begin to return home.
Children are going to need to VISIT schools to receive instruction for awhile.
Employment in the affected areas is questionable until more is known. This is just beginning. All people, single people as well, will need financial assistance and direction to achieve a sustainable life for awhile.
I suggest the displaced persons consider asking family for shelter if possible. Being in familiar places and seeing familiar faces are helpful to mental health.
I suggest rescue efforts should be focused on moving people without any priority as to who is first or last. Able bodied folks can help with local authorities to move to safer places to await rescue effort. Everyone goes, no one stays behind. The rescue efforts won't be back.
Deterioration and danger increase the further out on the timeline this storm exists.
The sustained winds and wind driven water will make their circumstances dire the longer they are facing this disaster. ASAP, please. No loss of life is acceptable.
FEMA needs to begin to STAGE rescue efforts in warehouses. It is going to be a while. I am sure the American Red Cross and other NGOs are looking to help. Stage them in. The dynamics are too dangerous to bring efforts into the area, the people need to be moved to safe cities.
The existing infrastructure all has to be inspected before it can be considered safe. There are going to be buildings condemned upon inspection. It is going to take time before people can begin to return home.
Children are going to need to VISIT schools to receive instruction for awhile.
Employment in the affected areas is questionable until more is known. This is just beginning. All people, single people as well, will need financial assistance and direction to achieve a sustainable life for awhile.
I suggest the displaced persons consider asking family for shelter if possible. Being in familiar places and seeing familiar faces are helpful to mental health.
I suggest rescue efforts should be focused on moving people without any priority as to who is first or last. Able bodied folks can help with local authorities to move to safer places to await rescue effort. Everyone goes, no one stays behind. The rescue efforts won't be back.
Deterioration and danger increase the further out on the timeline this storm exists.
Harvey is still a Category 2.
The first number is latitude, second is longitude. It hasn't moved much.
27.50 -96.50 08/25/18Z 110 941 HURRICANE-3
28.00 -97.00 08/26/00Z 115 938 HURRICANE-4
28.50 -97.20 08/26/06Z 85 963 HURRICANE-2
A 22 millibar increase in 12 hours. NASA can increase readings to every three hours rather than six hours if it will be helpful. Of course, that increases the cost of the assessments.
The people that survive this mess may need mental health help as well.
The first number is latitude, second is longitude. It hasn't moved much.
27.50 -96.50 08/25/18Z 110 941 HURRICANE-3
28.00 -97.00 08/26/00Z 115 938 HURRICANE-4
28.50 -97.20 08/26/06Z 85 963 HURRICANE-2
A 22 millibar increase in 12 hours. NASA can increase readings to every three hours rather than six hours if it will be helpful. Of course, that increases the cost of the assessments.
The people that survive this mess may need mental health help as well.
North Korea provided a clear picture of it's missiles.
Why were there incorrect assessments in the first place? The USA military better be making the most of these assessments.
August 28, 2017
By Ryan Pickrell
...PACOM has since changed its assessment, (click here) according to Yonhap News Agency.
“As an update to our initial release, the first and third missiles … did not ‘fail in flight,'” explained PACOM spokesman Cdr. David Benham said in a statement. “Rather, they flew approximately 250 kilometers in a northeastern direction. We will continue to work with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment of this latest launch and we will provide a public update if warranted.”...
August 28, 2017
By Ryan Pickrell
...PACOM has since changed its assessment, (click here) according to Yonhap News Agency.
“As an update to our initial release, the first and third missiles … did not ‘fail in flight,'” explained PACOM spokesman Cdr. David Benham said in a statement. “Rather, they flew approximately 250 kilometers in a northeastern direction. We will continue to work with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment of this latest launch and we will provide a public update if warranted.”...
"Government" in the USA doesn't listen to the scientists anymore. It listens to money. That has never been more of an inconvenient truth than in Texas today.
Texas is going to lose coastal land with Harvey. It is called erosion. There is wind driven rain for a sustained period of time and it will cause significant damage. The winds may not be a category 4 anymore, but, CONTINUOUS wind and rain are very damaging. It is unfortunate no government paid attention the way it should.
This is the damage of storms that blow through. Cat 1 SUSTAINED winds ACCUMULATE damage to infrastructure. Add flooding to this picture and the extent of the damage becomes as if there was a Cat 5 storm.
Texas is going to lose coastal land with Harvey. It is called erosion. There is wind driven rain for a sustained period of time and it will cause significant damage. The winds may not be a category 4 anymore, but, CONTINUOUS wind and rain are very damaging. It is unfortunate no government paid attention the way it should.
This is the damage of storms that blow through. Cat 1 SUSTAINED winds ACCUMULATE damage to infrastructure. Add flooding to this picture and the extent of the damage becomes as if there was a Cat 5 storm.
Congratulations, Flint.
August 22, 2017
By Oona Goodin-Smith
Flint, MI - A 435-job, $29 million automotive seating assembly plant (click here) will be built on Flint's long-vacant Buick City complex.
At a board meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 22, the Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $4.35 million state grant to the Lear Corporation - a Southfield-based auto supplier - to build a 150,000-square-foot building at 902 E. Hamilton Ave., the location of the former administration building at Buick City.
Lear chose to develop the historic Flint site over moving production to Mexico, according to a state memo.
Flint has offered a 50 percent tax abatement to the company to reduce the overall cost of doing the project in Michigan, the memo said.
Flint City Council approved Lear's development agreement in June, in which Lear pledged to "use efforts to hire locally whenever reasonably possible" for two years, according to documents obtained by MLive-The Flint Journal in a Freedom of Information Act Request....
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